CHAPTER 202

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 15.1-995 and 15.1-1058 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to the residence of county officers and county judges.

[H 400]
Approved March 6, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: |
1. That §§ 15.1-995 and 15.1-1053 of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 15.1-995. Any county officer or * judge of a county court, of * any
county who resides in the county or in any town therein, and has an estab-
lished home therein, which * homesite has become or hereafter becomes
a part of a city * since such officers’ election or appointment, shall not
vacate his office by reason of his residence in such city, but shall continue
to hold such office so long as he shall be successively elected or appointed
to the office held by him at the time of such transition. In any case where
any such transition shall have taken place prior to * January one, nine-
teen hundred sixty-four, any such office shall be, and it hereby is, declared
not to have been vacated. Any such officer shall for such purposes be
deemed to be a resident of the magisterial district wherein the * homesite
before * becoming a part of a city * was. *

§ 15.1-1053. If a county or district officer resides in territory
annexed to a city, such officer may continue in office until the end of the
term for which he was elected or appointed. The provisions of § 15.1-995
shall prevail with respect to successive reelections of such officers reelec-
tion. Removal of such officer, during his term of office from any such ter-
ritory, to another part of the city or town to which it is annexed shall
not vacate his office, but residence in any part of such city or town shall
during his term of office be deemed residence in the county or district.